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John F. Kennedy

Killed by an assassin's bullet just a thousand days into office, President John F. Kennedy was the country's youngest elected president. Born in Massachusetts, Kennedy became a war hero when his PT boat, PT-109 was rammed. Even with grave injuries, he led survivors to safety. While recuperating from an operation, he wrote "Profiles in Courage", which won him the Pulitzer. His call to actio…

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"Ask not what your country can do for you  ask what you can do for your country."—
John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)The lines preceding the quote read, "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility  I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it  and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
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